{"id":115988,"date":"2016-04-01T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=115988"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:59:16","slug":"gods-not-dead-2-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=115988","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>God&#8217;s Not Dead 2<\/i> (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM.jpg\" alt=\"large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM-143x200.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_divwGBN8516ScUbChF8RggAl2PM-285x400.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI got no problem with movies about faith. Some of the best movies ever made are about faith. But <i>God&#8217;s Not Dead 2<\/i> (I mean, the title alone!!) is representative of a seething and resentful very American brand of evangelical Christianity, which could be an interesting topic, but it&#8217;s all so poorly written and executed. Huge box-office hits, though, but &#8211; like the Christians in the movie &#8211; I have to speak my truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/gods-not-dead-2-2016\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I reviewed <i>God&#8217;s Not Dead 2<\/i> for Rogerebert.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got no problem with movies about faith. Some of the best movies ever made are about faith. But God&#8217;s Not Dead 2 (I mean, the title alone!!) is representative of a seething and resentful very American brand of evangelical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=115988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2579,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148345,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115988\/revisions\/148345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}